church

Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer Christians per capita every day.

There will come a time when people hungering for the truth will seek it where it is supposedly disseminated, such as books and churches, but they will not hear the Word of the Lord. Instead of receiving a message to satisfy their spiritual longings, they will hear a sermon on some current political or social problem, or a sermonette on art and literature. And so they wander from one place to another, going from hope to despair, and eventually giving up.

God did not ordain that the church should drift aimlessly in the seas of uncertainty without compass, captain, or crew.

The word church as applied to the Christian society was first used by Jesus Himself when He told Peter, __pon this rock I will build my church_ [Matthew 16:18]. He is the foundation of all Christian experience.

Pentecost was the day of power of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the Christian church was born.

The fiercest storm is taking place in some of our churches__he unbelief and disobedience of God__ Word.

I am convinced if the church went back to the main task of proclaiming the Gospel it would see people being converted to Christ, and it would have a far greater impact on the social, moral, and psychological needs of people than anything else it could possibly do.

The church is a storehouse of spiritual food whereby the inner man is fed, nourished, and developed into maturity. If it fails, it is not fulfilling its purpose as a church.

Preaching the whole council of God involves man__ environment and physical being as well as his soul. There is no doubt that the church is in danger of getting off the main track and getting lost.

In thousands of churches [people] are led astray theologically. Thus spiritually and morally they are drifting aimlessly, without compass or guide.

America and Western Europe are on a moneymaking, pleasure-mad spree unparalleled in the history of the world. God is generally ignored or ridiculed. Church members in many cases are only halfhearted Christians. Judgment is coming.

No church is perfect, but don__ let that discourage you. Someone has said that if you ever find one that is, it will stop being perfect the minute you join!

The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ.

Church is not for pretenders and performers. Church is a place for pastors to preach principles of the faith in order to prepare believers to face the storms of life on the stage of an unbelieving world.

We have become so tolerant and accepting of the world__ ways that it is hard for many in the church to notice the sin much less answer how it crept in. The church is to be in the world, but worldliness is not to infiltrate the church.

The church should not be pampered but rather prepare for, and expect, persecution__or it is Christ__ body on earth.

When the church begins to entertain the flock and respond to the cult of self__t is diminished to a mere community center.

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.